Southern Railway v. Steele

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Under California law, although juries are normally permitted to decide issues of causation without guidance from experts,” issues of causation “beyond the experience of laymen and can only be explained through expert testimony.”
• “Under California law, although juries are normally permitted to decide issues of causation without guidance from experts,” issues of causation “beyond the experience of laymen and can only be explained through expert testimony.”
• “The plaintiff ‘must prove that the defective products supplied by the defendant were a substantial factor in bringing about his 26 or her injury.’” (quoting Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois, Inc., 941 P.2d 1203, 1214 (Cal. 1997))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).